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Recession, tech kill middle-class jobs(news.yahoo.com)
43 points by dgunn 14y ago|69 comments
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by dgunn 14y ago
I'm not sure what your startup does, but I would bet there are better things to ask a candidate than this. You get these problems in school and become quite good at them in the moment but after doing real world work, this mindset will fade.
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by dgunn 14y ago
Nope. Just your standard flossing tips on HN. Nothing out of the ordinary here...
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by dgunn 14y ago
Bingo. This works for several services. I've personally had success with this (accidentally) with my cable provider back when cable was something people used. I called to cancel and enjoyed 3 months at a very reduced rate prior to cancellin
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by dgunn 14y ago
Am I still on HN?
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by dgunn 14y ago
I suspect people registering a domain on GoDaddy will have a much higher probability of being technically inclined and able to know what to pay for and what they don't need. Further, GoDaddy will recommend products which are relevant to som
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by dgunn 14y ago
In a few months, I will, once again, uninstall 10 tool bars from my mother's computer. She doesn't want them but they are all installed. Why? Because allowing users to opt out of installs is effectively the same as installing through a driv
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by dgunn 14y ago
I would say you're mostly alone. But I wish I were with you. I typically just waste time on my phone. GPS is what I consider the deal breaker to be on 'dumbphones' for me. Google navigation probably won't come in a device I would feel good
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by dgunn 14y ago
Get really good backers. Because of production costs, car manufacturers can barely handle having a single car in their portfolio fail. I can only imagine with higher expense and a smaller market, aerospace products would have an even lower
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by dgunn 14y ago
Time Mag has ads on their site. As in, they're trying to make money. I'm not sure it's a great idea for you to take all their content, put it on another website, use their logo/branding, and then tell the world you did it. I would recommend
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by dgunn 14y ago
One reason my stuff usually fails is due to empty elements. For example: <div class="clear"></div> in order to clear a float or something. There are better ways to do this but nothing is more convenient than riddling
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by dgunn 14y ago
I don't think you should focus on learning the many facets of SEO while trying to deliver a product but there are some quick, actionable pieces of advice which are undisputed enough that you can pretty much blindly implement them. A great p
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by dgunn 14y ago
Very nice. Congrats on shipping. Why the subdomain blog.mocktailsapp.in? You're building a product which is already established as a thing people need. You can almost be sure people are searching, right now, for 'mockups with version contro
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by dgunn 14y ago
Why aren't you charging more for this? Serious question. Does the value your service provides your users equal $3.99? More? Less? What line of thought resulted in $3.99/year? Are you interested in this being a business or is this just a hob
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by dgunn 14y ago
"We chose to use these keywords (abortion, gun control and obama) because they are both a) searches where many people want unbiased results..." I suspect that someone searching for these keywords are looking for reinforcement of their prede
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by dgunn 14y ago
I think it depends on whether the biz has been validated in some way or not. I think the first version of most products should be simple enough to not need 100% dedication in order to build it. If it requires that much focus, you might try
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by dgunn 14y ago
I usually go to http://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=<user_id&#62 ; where <user_id> is an admirable user who's opinion I respect. I generally start with patio11 to see what he's read/commented on. My theory is that if he comm
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by dgunn 14y ago
The issue here is that you aren't a candidate to work for small bootstrapped startups. You can tell this is the case by the unfavorable results you get by working for them. Startups get talent by partnering with the right people. I can't im
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by dgunn 14y ago
I would build a long term project together. Maybe a website. Buy him a domain with his name in it (he'll get a big kick out of showing it off to his friends). Start with just static html and build it about something which interests him. Ove
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by dgunn 14y ago
Most of your issues seem to be about Unity. I don't like it either. You should try KDE. It comes built into Kubuntu if you'd like to run it live before you commit. If you like the feel of older Ubuntu, I would recommend xfce, which is what
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by dgunn 14y ago
I'd be happy to work with you some to get people to your site. Email is in the profile.
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by dgunn 14y ago
Large numbers of people are still voting them to the top almost weekly. I don't think we can blame this on new users.
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by dgunn 14y ago
Maybe? It's still one of the more popular topics on HN though so it couldn't have been fixed very well.
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Dear HN: Stop complaining about the "Unknown or expired link" issue
4 points by dgunn 14y ago|6 comments
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by dgunn 14y ago
In base 10, 1+1 is still equal to 10 for very large values of 1.
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by dgunn 14y ago
Some sites will say you can't scrape. They'll say so in their TOS if that's the case. If you absolutely need that info, there are ways to not look like a spider. One way is to use a browser driver (pretty heavy option so I would just not us
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by dgunn 14y ago
Those who say, "Search Sucks", are bloggers who need you to read something they wrote. You're not likely to get one to show up here to tell you what's up. It's because they're just using that headline for what it is - bait that will top HN
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by dgunn 14y ago
The smallest would always be #1. You probably meant to only say 2 and 3. I think a toggle switch would be a good idea. That's how most services allow you to control your spending.
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by dgunn 14y ago
This is all pretty standard stuff for email campaign software, but there isn't much out there for emails that are going to be on a more personal, smaller scale. My point exactly
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by dgunn 14y ago
This is actually a great idea. If someone offered something like this, I would expect that link tracking should also be part of it. My main issue with something like whoreadme is the idea of adding their domain to the email address. It adds

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